#oh i might actually cry

[deeisace]

@hypnodazed in the notes thank you for telling me where to find these articles, hope nobody minds me adding them on here - thought to do so, because not everyone can find/view them -

29th March 1937 - The Daily Mirror, page 5

ID: newspaper article reading

Girl Becomes Man

Barmaid Ellen Now Barman Alan

From our special correspondent

Crewe, Sunday

After living sixteen years as a girl, Ellen Caldwell, of Martin Street, Crewe, has grown to manhood - and become Alan. At birth Ellen was registered as a girl, attended St Mary's Roman Catholic School and later worked on a milk round, in a bakery, in a wire works and as a barmaid.

Last December Ellen found herself growing a beard, became worried, consulted a doctor. An operation was performed at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Ellen, no longer a girl, changed her name.

I met Alan at the Cheese Hall Hotel, Crewe, working as a barman where a short time ago he was a barmaid.

(bold, large print) "I'm glad it's over."

"I'm glad it is all over," said Alan, "and I know just what I am. I shall stay on at the hotel.

When I was a girl, I used to play football, but I have given that up now, although I shall go on playing cricket."

(bold) "As soon as Alan knew he was a boy he wanted to come navvying with me, but I would not allow that," his father told me.

(bold) Stalwart ex-soldier Harold, Alan's brother, said, "Even as a girl he was stronger than I and could always manage me in a tussle."

Mr Clark told me: "As a girl Alan was one of the best servants I ever had."

/End ID.

I hope everyone disappointed with the Daily Post's continual misgendering is glad to see that not every newspaper or reporter is the same, tho I would say, in the kindest possible way, and as a transman myself, you must remember that this is 87 years ago, and we cannot hold people then to our modern standards.

"Navvying" is, so far as I know, digging canals and things like that, heavy manual work.

Also, the Cheese Hall Hotel is the same place Sylvia worked as a barmaid in 1939 - not definitive, until we get the actual record back (I ordered it yesterday), but it adds credence to that that marriage is in fact our same Allen, rather than someone with the same name.

You could take the above as Allen being intersex, but it is true (as I think hypnodazed has said in a reply) that sometimes people lied to get the medical attention they needed, so as ever we can't know for sure. Which is frustrating to say, I suppose, and frustrating to hear, I imagine, but there's nothing to be done about it.

And, on the back page of the same issue -

ID: Ellen Becomes Man

(a photograph of two men walking down the street wearing suits)

After living as a girl for sixteen years, Ellen Caldwell, of Crewe, has had an operation and become Alan.

You see her - or rather, him (wearing a light tie) - in this picture, taken as he was out walking with his brother Harold. See story on page 5. /End ID.

In the olden days they did things so sensibly. Page 8 of The Liverpool Daily Post, 29 March 1937

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 169

Danny is from a world where everyone has wings, even if most have long since lost the ability to fly. Something about loading and aspect ratio, wings being too small, body too heavy, now mostly used as display, whatever. 

It doesn’t matter even if he had blueprints from when he was like six of a jetpack to help fly. It won’t work anyway and hey, he has his ghost form! Which uh, might be perhaps, affecting his wings which were maybe sort of scorched black and practically down to the bone thanks to the accident. 

It doesn’t matter, he swears. Though he’s admittedly relieved to see the new feathers growing in are different from Dan’s angry sunset. Even if they’re not even supposed to be able to grow back. Alright, this is fine, no one is going to notice! It’s not like everyone knows about the poor Fenton kid whose wings were absolutely destroyed thanks to an accident! It’s fine. 

He’s not flying in a half-panic towards the Far Frozen while crying because his wings are coming back and he’s so scared. He didn’t panic and instantly fled the moment Jazz pointed them out while changing the bandages. 

He definitely didn’t trip over something while wiping away said tears and blacking out from all the stress and all of his problems that he definitely mentioned to someone and isn’t keeping a secret. Definitely. 

Hawkwoman and Hawkman would like everyone to know that neither of them were expecting a very small child to be spat out of the villain of that week’s machine that should definitely not be a portal. A very small child, maybe nine or ten, with a multitude of concerning wounds both old and fresh. Which isn’t even beginning to touch on the wings. 

Feathered, like baby down despite the gnarled scars, unlike their own metallic, with the beginning of tiny specklings like stars amidst the darker fuzz peeking from the wounded flesh. 

Who?! Who dared?! It’s (at least to the forever reincarnating duo) a literal baby! They still have down! Tiny baby fuzz! Was it the portal?! Oh this villain is going to taste their maces for causing this if that’s the case! 

The rest of the Justice League would honestly like to know what just happened and are honestly unsure on if they should stop the two…

[rosietrace]

Jorge: “I plan to release The Wisdom Saga before the end of the year, maybe in a few mon—”

Also Jorge:

[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[faaun]

last night i got home kind of tipsy and very much in tears and my mother told me the force you exert to keep someone in your life is proportional to the force with which they will leave your life. if you have to fight tooth and claw to keep them, their leaving will be just as hard, just as harsh, and just as definite.

[ritoryb]

THE TOMORROW WITH YOU

[cure-stars]

"but you see......this is where my story ends."

"then, let's start it―― right now! your next story!"

as if you're opening a present every second.

as if i'm searching for a star that's still unknown to anyone. 🎪

[it-one-line-at-a-time]

"Yeah.

"You're braver than you think."

[chiarrara]

who up happying they new year rn

[pardonmydelays]

guys i am visiting my sister in the uk in january and she just bought us the tickets to see hadestown on west end!!!

[blueautumngrave]

WHAT THE FUCK DID AUSTEN DO TO FUCKING GET HOMESICK AT SPACE CAMP AND ITS NO A SIDE EFFECT OF THE COCAINE LIKE IM HAPPY FOR YALL BUT WHAT THE FUCK MAN

[milksnake-tea]

sometimes i think about the way sunday is 100% fine with doing fucked up things as long as he thinks the people he’s doing those things to deserve them

[shima-draws]

Slamming my head against the wall god fucking DAMMIT I'm so in love with Sanlu I am GOING to explode.

[lulu2992]

My favourite part of The Atonement cutscene that almost no one mentions is when John tells the newly awoken Deputy to hold still, so that he can tattoo them properly, they DO AS HE SAYS! They actually LET GO of him and stay perfectly still. They don't struggle AT ALL, don't look around or away from John, they don't need a cultist to hold them down or to point a gun at them in an unspoken threat to behave, they just do what John asks them without further prompting or threats. I guess the Deputy immediately accepts that they're getting a tattoo and just wants it to look good XD Am I the only one losing my mind over this??

To be fair, there is an armed cultist holding their left shoulder down (as you can see here or here) but they could still move if they wanted to, especially considering how strong they are. But yeah, instead, they let go of John’s arm and just... accept their fate.

I suppose they realized it was too late because John was nearly done and that struggling while you’re being tattooed is never a good idea anyway :’)

[disdaidal]

Someone who constantly embarks on ship wars and fandom wank... doesn't sound too mentally stable. It's sad, really.

Dedicating all that energy and free time to arguing about fictional characters and their relationships, instead of channeling it into something more relaxing or creative, sounds destructive.

Seek help, please. Before it devours you completely.

[matcha-b]

currently losing my mind rn waboku posted art of a bunch of his characters in suits and. tokyo ghetto girl and seki

look at them .